# education - Wednesday 22 May, 2013
The CSO has published a wide-ranging document, covering everything from household waste to penalty points.
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# education - Monday 20 May, 2013
With youth unemployment at 23 per cent, the European Union and policy makers have a collective responsibility and obligation to help the “Lost Generation”, writes Liam Aylward.
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The Irish Federation of University Teachers said it was up to the official side to prove that talks on a new pay deal are not just an attempt to persuade people to accept proposals that have already been rejected.
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# education - Sunday 19 May, 2013
National Volunteering Week ends today. Here Donnacha Maguire, who is in Ethiopia, tells us about some of the work being done by Irish volunteers in the country.
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# education - Saturday 18 May, 2013
Figures released by Ruairí Quinn show that 55 people under the remit of the Dept of Education earn over €200,000 a year.
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# education - Friday 17 May, 2013
The INTO also agreed to accept an invitation to go back to the talks table with the Labour Relations Commission.
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# education - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
The Minister is currently debating the issue with fellow ministers Joan Burton and Frances Fitzgerald.
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# education - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
“Given that there are currently 6,300 children in the care of the State – a relatively small number”, Emily Logan believes more should be done to support them.
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The research from the Department of Eduction says that more students from fee-paying secondary schools progress directly to higher education.
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In a recent broad-ranging interview, Frances Fitzgerald talks about schools being ‘too ashamed’ to stand up to bullying, ‘unacceptable’ waiting lists and ‘bad news’ in service inspections.
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# education - Friday 3 May, 2013
About 30 people were treated for smoke inhalation but nobody was seriously injured.
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Sinn Féin’s Jonathan O’Brien says keeping more of last year’s staff would help to avoid a repeat of 2012’s chronic delays.
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# education - Sunday 28 April, 2013
In a recent broad-ranging interview, Ruairí Quinn talks patronage, third-level fees, Margaret Thatcher’s funeral and his own future.
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# education - Saturday 27 April, 2013
In a recent interview with TheJournal.ie, the Minister for Education outlined concerns about homophobic bullying and the bullying of the ‘bright, pretty young person’ in the classroom.
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# education - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
Ruairí Quinn said it is “far too early” to say if legislation will be brought to legislate for pay cuts following the rejection of Croke Park II.
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# education - Monday 22 April, 2013
St Anne’s national school in Ardclough, Kildare was “completed” in December 2011 but remains vacant because minor problems uncovered during an inspection remain unfixed.
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# education - Sunday 14 April, 2013
Former students include the last Shah of Iran, Prince Rainier of Monaco and assorted members of wealthy US families Rockefellers and Rothschilds.
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# education - Thursday 11 April, 2013
Free open online course allows students here – and abroad – to explore Irish identity.
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# education - Sunday 7 April, 2013
The fundamental role the educational system plays today is determining a young person’s future life choices, so if there is to be equal opportunity, then we need to tackle equal access for all, writes Fr Peter McVerry.
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# education - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Hundreds of secondary school students are creating businesses for national entrepreneurship final. This little invention is just one of the entries.
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# education - Friday 5 April, 2013
Around 42,000 serving teachers will have to be vetted retrospectively under new legislation, which one teachers’ union says will create long delays.
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# education - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
The minister is to publish a bill which will curtail the “over-use of preferential treatment” in the enrolment process.
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# education - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland also proposed the withdrawal of goodwill tasks like supervision duties.
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Things we learned, loved and shared today…
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5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# education - Monday 1 April, 2013
INTO President spoke of “increasing anger” over education cuts.
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The Green Party has called on the Education Minister to avoid implementing recommendations that may lead to the closure of rural schools.
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The United Nations says yes. Well, kind of.
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# education - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
The reality is that inspections only offer a momentary window into a teacher’s classroom as an educator. I would challenge the very notion that increasing inspections and appraisals is necessary to help develop better education standards, writes Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.
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# education - Tuesday 26 March, 2013
The ISPCC has developed a ‘self evaluation toolkit’ that schools can use to determine their own strengths and needs regarding bullying, writes Andrew Jackson.
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The campaign aims to empower people in spotting and dealing with the signs and symptoms of suicide.
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# education - Sunday 24 March, 2013
Protecting the staff of religious-run medical and educational institutions who are members of the LGBT community or those who are single parents should be a priority, especially if they receive state funding, says Ivana Bacik.
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# education - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
Equal access data from the Higher Education Authority has shown that third level entrants from the top three socio-economic backgrounds continue to increase, with those from less wealthy background dropping off.
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# education - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
The poetry, prose and history of the Irish language should be taken out of the current course and put into a separate, optional subject for advanced students – while “Irish Language” should be taught to every student as a core subject, writes Aodhán Ó Deá.
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# education - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
It would be foolish to overlook the amazing opportunities social networks and other digital tools present for young people just because older generations are intimated by change, writes Dr Stephen Brennan.
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# education - Monday 11 March, 2013
The figures in the current INTO survey were compared to similar research undertaken 10 years ago.
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# education - Saturday 9 March, 2013
However teaching, medicine and arts have all dropped.
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# education - Friday 8 March, 2013
The fourth biennial State of the Nation’s Children has been released.
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# education - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
The teachers’ union wants the State to end its financial support for private schools.
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An examination of Ireland’s 55 so-called private secondary schools has thrown up some interesting figures.
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